The annual Victorian Glass Art Festival will be held in September, 2004, in Victoria, BC. The Festival features classes and workshopsin Hot Glass, Warm Glass, Stained Glass, Stained Glass Business, and other glass techniques. Link to website at www.victorianglassartfestival.com.

PostPicasso.com (an online international juried art venue) is planning an exhibition featuring new forms in glass. They are also hoping that stained glass artists will choose to participate in the Embodiment exhibition at the end of the year.

Deadline for entries: August 10, 2004. Open to all forms of glass. Artwork created within the last two years and currently available for sale. Images may be submitted as slides. We will not accept discs or CDs and only one image per piece of artwork will be accepted.

Entry Fee: $25 USD, Prospectus and Application Materials: https://www.postpicasso.com/info/prospectus/prospectus.asp?exhibit_id=17.

"Permanent Exhibition of Historic Windows"
Romont is a medieval town with a castle accommodating a museum unique in Switzerland: The Museum of Glass Painting. The fine, varied collection documents the art of a millennium in which color, form and light are harmoniously blended. Link to website (in French).

"Permanent Exhibition of over 175 Windows"
The exhibition features windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany, John LaFarge, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Franz Mayer and F.X. Zettler of Munich, and others. Admission is free. Open daily. Free guided tours by appointment. The museum has no website at this time. Phone 312-595-5024 for more information.

This book has long been considered the definitive guide for painting on glass for both the beginner and professional alike. Art in Architecture Press has reprinted this valuable reference book and it is now available for order on the web. They also have a number of other very useful reference books for the stained glass enthusiast and professional. Link to website.

Orchids in Glass by Chantal Pare is now officially in print and available at Amazon.com. Chantal's website has a link to the book location at Amazon, and also features free patterns. Link to Website.

Artscape in Toronto has produced a "how to" handbook called Square Feet: The Artists Guide to Renting and Buying Work Space that is full of important information relating to the renting or purchasing of studio space. Artscape has posted a free Web-based version of this 157-page document on their Web site (Link to Artscape website)

If you prefer a printed copy ($20 per copy plus shipping and handling), please call Liz Kohn, Marketing and Development Coordinator at 416-392-1038, ext. 25 or e-mail squarefeet@torontoartscape.on.ca

Gundar Robez Benefit Auction in New Hampshire

Richard Millard held a Glass Art Auction in April at his Studio in New Hampshire, USA. With the money going to help Gundar Robez. About $2,000.00 was received for various stained glass items that were auctioned.

An exciting new means of communication for all those who are interested in architectural stained glass is now available, with the launching of the Stained Glass Network on Architectural Stained Glass, a moderated internet discussion forum that will provide a worldwide exchange of information for individuals engaged in historic research, documentation and preservation of stained glass in architectural settings. The internet forum is free and open to everyone with an interest in the subject. It will be of especial interest to scholars and advanced students in the fields of art history, architectural history and religious history, church and synagogue administrators and archivists, museum curators and conservators, historic preservationists, librarians, teachers, architects and stained glass artists and restorers.

The Stained Glass Network, which includes both an e-mail list and a web site, will provide a forum for reporting research findings on the history of stained glass artists and studios, styles, techniques and iconography; discussing the relationship of architectural stained glass with cultural traditions; raising issues related to repair, restoration and preservation; reviewing books and articles; and sharing of information about exhibitions, conferences, seminars, calls for papers, academic programs, training workshops, and grant and employment opportunities.

To subscribe to the Stained Glass Network, send an e-mail to:
listserv@h-net.msu.edu
with the following message in the text and entering your own first name and last name where they are indicated:
"SUB stained-glass@h-net.msu.edu firstname lastname, affiliation"
(An affiliation is optional)

You will receive an e-mail answer, telling you how to confirm your subscription, followed by two more e-mails of welcome and information.

The Stained Glass Network web site is at http://www.h-net.org/~stnglass/.

Note: The Stained Glass Network on Architectural Stained Glass differs from the recently launched Michigan Stained Glass Census e-Newsletter, in that it allows subscribers to post information and queries that will open scholarly discussions on many topics related to stained glass. We hope that you will join in this new discussion forum that will bring together a worldwide community of those who research, work with or simply appreciate architectural stained glass. If you have any questions, please contact Betty MacDowell at macdowe3@pilot.msu.edu.

Stained Glass Sundials of the World is a non-profit website devoted to bringing back the art of incorporating sundials in windows and architecture. They are hoping to stimulate, promote and facilitate communication between stained glass artisans and sundial designers so that more stained glass sundial windows will be built in the future. The website has photos of sundials made using many techniques of glass fabrication and design.

The website has links to many sundial designers for glass artists, and also links to glass artists for sundial designers. Link to Stained Glass Sundials of the World website.
Link to Sundial Sculptures website (John Carmichael) for questions.

In seventeenth century Europe, when both sundials and stained glass windows were popular, a few industrious artisans like Henry Gyles of York and John Oliver combined the art of stained glass making with the science of sundial design and produced wondrous stained glass sundial windows, some of which still exist today.

Today's stained glass craftsman can build one almost as easily as a typical stained glass window if they have a little technical help with their sundial drawings. Window sundials will function as accurate timepieces only if a qualified sundial designer provides the artisan with a custom-made design based on the window’s specific location using its latitude and longitude. Astronomical laws demand that every sundial be different, depending on its location. A qualified sundial designer who understands all the math involved must determine the sundial part of the glass design in order for a stained glass sundial to function properly.

Location: The best location for a window sundial is a perfectly vertical wall that faces due south in the northern hemisphere or due north in the southern hemisphere and that receives full or filtered sunlight for most of the day. Another good place is on a perfectly horizontal flat roof (like a skylight). Both of these locations are good because the sundial window is lit by the sun for the maximum number of hours in a day. For example, you can have a sundial window on an east, west or even north wall, but these sundials will only work for part of the day. Although in theory, a sundial can be designed for any surface that receives sunlight, even angled, tilted and curved surfaces. But their calculation, construction and installation, particularly the tricky placement of the gnomon, is very difficult. South wall and flat ceiling sundials are the easiest to design, construct and install.

The gnomon (shadow casting metal rod or triangular sheet) is usually attached to the window's metal structure either by soldering or by threading the end of the gnomon and screwing it into a nut that is soldered to the window's metal skeleton. In many old dials, a threaded gnomon was bolted to a hole cut in the glass. Of course, if the glass is thin, the gnomon can crack the glass and even fall out, so the other methods of attachment are preferable, unless the glass is thick. Or, the gnomon can be attached to the wall of the building directly above the window. All gnomons in the Northern Hemisphere, when properly positioned will point to the North Celestial pole (The North Star). And in the southern hemisphere, they'll point south.

If you want to locate a sundial designer for a project, Here is a link to Sundial Organizations. And here is a link to Sundials on the Internet and sundail makers.

With over 40 stunning photographs and historic postcard views by Leon Yost. Original research and historical text by Tom Murphy, History Department Chair, St. Peter's Preparatory School, and John Gomez, Founder & President, Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy.

The 2004 Calendar makes a great gift and is incredibly informative! Did you know that the architect of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine also designed Jersey City's magnificent Sacred Heart Church on Martin Luther King Drive, which has a stained glass collection recognized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art? That our City's oldest standing Catholic church building, St. Joseph's, was built in the 1860s of blue rock cut out of the Palisades by Irish immigrant railroad laborers? That one of the first Mosques in the metropolitan area is housed in a former Scottish Rite Temple on Park Street? That some of the most beautiful icons, tapestries, and mosaics created by early-20th century Russian masters adorn a Russian Orthodox church on Grand Street on the waterfront?

$12.99 per calendar; $2.50 U.S. Mail postage.
Make check or money order out to:

Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy
P.O. Box 68
Jersey City, NJ 07303-0068

Proceeds go toward our preservation campaigns, educational programs, and general operating costs.

For more information about the 2004 Calendar, more stained glass in Jersey City, and the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy, visit our web site at: www.jclandmarks.org.

Telephone: 201-420-1885
Email: jclandmarks@earthlink.net.

LACMA's collection is one of the major holdings of stained glass in the United States, ranking fourth after The Metropolitan Museum, New York; the Pitcairn Collection of Bryn Athen; and the Philadelphia Museum. It is derived almost entirely from William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), who assembled one of the largest American collections of stained glass. Highlights include an extensive number of Swiss panels from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a pair of significant early French pieces from the cathedral at Sées in Normandy, and Dutch panels of the seventeenth century.

To view the works use this link and search the database for "stained glass": Link to search page at LACMA.

This non-profit Canadian agency was founded in 1967, to match the skills of experienced individuals in Canada with companies and organizations worldwide that seek mentoring, but for whom paid consultants are out of reach. CESO is looking for glass artist volunteers who are able to volunteer a week or up to three months of their time.

More information on this website.